Jan Eriksson


Jan Jonas Jakob Eriksson is a former footballer from Sweden. He played 35 matches and scored four goals for the national team. Two of those goals came at the Euro 1992. He was selected for the 1990 FIFA World Cup squad, but did not play. Eriksson was also selected for the Swedish 1994 FIFA World Cup squad but had to leave the team just before the start of the tournament because of an injury. He was replaced by Teddy Lucic.
Eriksson joined English side Sunderland in January 1997, but went on to make only one appearance for the club in a 1-0 defeat at Aston Villa in February 1997. He left the club in May 1998 having made no further appearances.
He was awarded Guldbollen in 1992. Eriksson's father Jan-Åke Eriksson and younger brother Patrik Eriksson-Ohlsson are also footballers.